BHUBANESWAR: The state government is all set to create 5,000 affordable housing units in the city soon by involving private developers, housing and urban development (H&UD) secretary Injeti Srinivas said here on Tuesday.

BHUBANESWAR: In a bid to check the mushrooming growth of slums in the state, the BJD government is planning to create rental housing blocks at an affordable monthly rent of up to Rs 2,000 for the poor.
The recently announced Scheme for Affordable Urban Housing in Odisha-2012 has enunciated that the government shall provide land to the urban local bodies (ULBs) for creation of such housing bloc